The dog wouldn't want to die without him. Dogs are almost like our symbiotes.

Even though I’d set up the cat tree on her insistence, Donut jumped straight onto my neck and settled in.

“Goodnight, Carl,” she said.

“Goodnight, Donut,” I said, patting her head.

“Promise me you won’t let me die alone like GumGum’s mom,” she said. “Or GumGum. I guess she died alone, too. She was probably really scared.”

“Don’t worry, Donut,” I said. “We’ll find out who’s responsible, and we’ll make them pay.”

I'm just reading the "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series (which includes "The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook") and he sort of inherits his ex-girlfriends cat Donut. Then the earth is flattened by aliens because we failed to file and appeal 50 years after first content and Carl is forced into a Running Man style dungeon for the alien's entertainment. Luckily his cat Donut evolves and becomes intelligent and can shoot magic missiles out of her eyes. She later says:

“You promised me that I wouldn’t die alone,” she said. “You can’t keep that promise if you die before me. We do this together.”

the western brainpan is only capable of caring about life they deem fit to be pets.

Many pet lovers do not love Earth and it's inhabitamts (including other humans) minus the specific pet they have emotionally latched onto.

This is so fucking bleak

I think it's unexamined ideology. there's a project to indoctrinate us to not have empathy for humans in distress, to see their circumstances, generally, as a product of their choices.

there is something similar at work for animals, but it's less acute and relies a lot on "out of sight, out of mind" and speciesism. animals in the built environment are pretty tightly controlled in the US. shit, imagine the amount of effort it would take to overcome the outcry over the number of loose, feral dogs getting blasted by cars we would have to see here.

guarantee most people who wanted to save this dog and ignores the human passively assumed this guy could "take care of himself" in a way they felt the dog could not.

These kinds of misanthropic liberals don't deserve to consume feel-good-bittersweet stories about animals surviving hardship

Send them the dozens of videos of animals in Gaza with their limbs snapped off by IOF bombs, that's all these fuckers deserve to witness

Not surprised, it's kind of like first world feminism bleeding into terf shit, animal welfare groups putting the dog above the human. It's sad because you can want animal liberation while also looking out for people too, but I guess they missed the memo.

Oh.

Yeah.. that is just bullshit. I want to be mad but I'm just sad. Offering to take away his companion to appease your own idea of morals.
I question if western cultures have real empathy for other humans.

Dog people are some of the worst psychopaths JFC. I don't get how you can love dogs, but then have nothing but contempt for cats, humans (especially children), and non-mammals. What causes this? It's probably sadists are drawn to dogs over other living things, right?

If the internet had been overflowing with pictures of zionist stormtroopers torturing cats and dogs and bombing pet hospitals the way we have seen them do to human beings, the "state of Israel" would have been nuked off the map by now.